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Who--We are: 4 th year participants in ERF with Lorain City Schools; Beth Dianne Gloria and Sandy who’s not here, but planned with us for today Why: to share our experience with the core curriculum, Harcourt Trophies; it’s not perfect, but as you work through the grant process, you will learn to fill in the gaps. You’ll have people to support you.

Reach for your goals---trophies will provide you with most of the tools you’ll need to reach you goals

Harcourt is a tool to aide the teacher to achieve maximum instructional effectiveness. There is no perfect core curriculum. The best that can be done is to select a core program that best aligns with the five essentials. It is the teacher who has the most impact and influence on student achievement.

Circle time: Whole group engagement with the 5 essential elements of early literacy— oral language Vocabulary Phonological awareness Shared writing Letters and sounds Story time: Whole group exploration of concepts print in literature It’s all about the book— Big books collection Lap books collection Big book of rhymes and songs Nursery rhymes anthology Take-home books (in stories and more) Activity time: Small group instruction directed by the teacher Reinforce the themes Differentiating to meet the individual needs of the students Objectives: The objectives are mainly global for each of the essential elements They remain the same throughout the entire unit. Meeting individual needs or differentiating: (pp. 124-129) Extra support is written on the bottom of the essential elements and activity time pages They are organized by color: red= extra support; ELL learners/language delay; advanced

Planning sheet for each group 5 groups Color coordinated Day 1—red Day 2—orange Day 3—green Day 4—blue Day 5--purple

Introduction to Harcourt Trophies

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Introductions <ul><li>We are … </li></ul><ul><li>Why we are here… </li></ul>

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Goals <ul><li>Examine and analyze the components of Harcourt PreK Trophies. </li></ul><ul><li>Apply the knowledge of Harcourt Trophies to plan for a one-week selected theme. </li></ul><ul><li>Reflect on the possibilities of what Harcourt Trophies has to offer to meet diverse teacher and student needs. </li></ul>

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Unit Day Planner <ul><li>Page 94 </li></ul><ul><li>Five themes for each unit </li></ul><ul><ul><li>One week </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Quickly see across what is included for the given theme </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Theme 14: Going Places </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Literature </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Letters and sounds </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Phonological awareness </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Oral language/vocabulary </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>writing </li></ul></ul>

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How to use <ul><li>Organize and get an overall picture of what you will be doing for the week </li></ul><ul><li>Day 1 </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Theme Introduction, general </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Make connections </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Days 2-5 </li></ul><ul><ul><li>The details _ </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Vocabulary </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Letter sounds </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Phonological awareness </li></ul></ul>

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Group Work - Daily Plan <ul><li>Divide into 5 groups </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Select a colored marker (color represents day of the week) </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Go to area assigned for color/day </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Worksheet </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Plan the assigned day with group </li></ul><ul><li>Record plans on template provided </li></ul><ul><li>Share with the group – 2:30 </li></ul>